Textile designer Ben Rose commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s student James Speyer to design the house in 1953, and of course was the location for Cameron Frye’s home in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off where at the end of the film the classic Ferrari California (corvette kit car) shoots out the glass pane window and into the ravine behind / under the home.

Textile designer Ben Rose commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s student James Speyer to design the house in 1953, and of course was the location for Cameron Frye’s home in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off where at the end of the film the classic Ferrari California (corvette kit car) shoots out the glass pane window and […]

James Holmes, a 24 year old doctoral student at the Univerity of Colorado School of Medicine, acted out his fantasy of being The Joker, and opens fire in a crowded Aurora, Colorado movie theater on the opening night of “Batman, The Dark Knight Rises” and killing at least 12 people. Of the fatally shot was […]

For $29 million, you get nine bedrooms, 15 baths and five fireplaces, a three-bedroom guesthouse, pool, outdoor tennis court and climate-controlled garages for multiple cars. Not surprisinigly, the home includes indoor basketball features, including a full-size regulation court with cushioned hardwood flooring and high intensity lighting, and a sound system to help take your game […]

Michael Schumacher drives the Mercedes SLS AMG through the China Bar Tunnel in Boston Bar, British Columbia. A Mercedes Benz tv spot for the new Mercedes SLS designed to suggest that the car has enough power and grip and answer the age old question, “is it possible to roll a car in a tunnel”. The […]

What an unfortunate day of construction for the Google car to go through this poor old town of 9,900 people. A population that has stayed the same since the heady days of old Route 66 when the train station, airport, and local businesses were buzzing with activity and business. Now, Winslow is a town decimated, […]

If you’ve ordered a car from Germany and it hasn’t yet arrived, then get you VIN ready and a microscope, this might take a while. This is the major shipping port for German cars to the US and the rest of the world. Mostly filled with BMW, but if you look closely you can see […]

This home is owned by Largo in the 1961 Thunderball movie, the second movie in the series, although slated to be first, it couldn’t escape scheduling complications. Facing certain death, James Bond has to deal with sharks in the pool on the left side of the house, only to escape what has become a series […]

In honor of the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, both US and Canadian delegates gathered at a small home in Montreal at 8232 Avenue de Gaspe to pay tribute to the man who helped not only with the civil rights movement in the United States, but help pave the way for equality for African American […]